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Sunday, April 28, 2013

Fearfully Yours

16 comments:

I enjoyed your comic so far, but I'm not sure what you're trying to say here... Amd whatever it might be that you're trying to say is quite possibly not very nice. Sorry to see that you decided to go in that direction. :-|

Well this is a special week! This comic is intended to be a careful review and critique of the difference in language syntax and expression, focusing on the Jaynesian contrast between Romance and Germano-Saxon approaches, rather than just a simple broad joke taking advantage of stereotypes, like most weeks. Don't worry! The guffaws will return next Sunday.

Just a question, why are so many people making fun of "Ich liebe dich"? I'm Austrian, and for me, this sentence is a love conquer (if that's the right term), nothing else. What's the funny thing about it? I guess I don't get it because German is my native language, but...well, I'm just wondering. Anyone who can tell me? ( =

Really? Haha, well, I've heard that German doesn't sound very good. ^^I personally like the Japanese "aishiteru" ( =But the most powerful one for me is still "Ich liebe dich!"^^ Thank you for you answer!

In Japanese actually even that isn't so commonly used (at least not for declaration, I think) because supposedly people feel "love" is too strong of a word...?The preferred seems to be "sukida" (I like you) or "daisukida" (I like you very much).

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ITCHY FEET is the weekly web comic about travel, life in foreign countries, and learning new languages. Readers can expect an astonishing array of exaggerated facial expressions, humorous situations involving foreigners and foreign lands, and ordinary silliness.